Hi there, I'm configuring a FAI 3.2.4 setup and am kind of surprised by the following;
I have configured the faiserver with all default settings (ofcourse the needed basics defined) and two clients which suppose to pxe-boot from the faiserver. Both clients boot fine using PXE and thus get an ip-address from the dhcp server, which is configured based on its mac-address. So far so good, the moment the clients want to mount the root-fs I receive another dhcp request from the same mac-address but it somehow wants to receive a specific ip-address, and accepts no other : Dec 17 15:26:50 faiserver dhcpd: DHCPREQUEST for 192.168.111.147 (192.168.111.254) from 00:0c:29:d6:46:2b via eth0: lease 192.168.111.147 unavailable. Dec 17 15:26:50 faiserver dhcpd: DHCPNAK on 192.168.111.147 to 00:0c:29:d6:46:2b via eth0 Dec 17 15:26:54 faiserver dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:0c:29:d6:46:2b via eth0 Dec 17 15:26:54 faiserver dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.111.10 to 00:0c:29:d6:46:2b via eth0 faiserver -> 192.168.111.100 fai-client1 -> 192.168.111.10 fai-client2 -> 192.168.111.11 I am now wondering about two things; - why the second dhcp request since it already received it trough dhcpd/pxe ? - why would go ask for a specific ip-address in the same network and doesn't it just bind on the earlier supplied ip-address ? A different question is, what's the best place to initiate a dhcp-client request for a second interface, which is actually the interface to be used for internet-connectivity and thus the bootstrap location. Possibly I'm overlooking something but I cannot figure out what exactly at this moment. Before I start flooding this mailing-list with all kinds of configuration-files and logfiles I want to leave this question a bit open :) thanks Roel.
